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Vercel Blog

Faster deploy times for large builds

We optimized the deploy step of the to reduce build times by 2.8 seconds at P99, 760ms at P75, and 410ms on average.build process For customers with a large number of Vercel Functions (100+), builds are more than 50 seconds faster. Several customers have time savings of over 2 minutes. Check out to learn more about builds.the documentation Read more

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New execution duration limit for Edge Functions

Starting on March 1st, 2025, we will begin the rollout of a new execution duration limit of 300 seconds for using the Edge runtime.Vercel Functions Previously, Edge Functions had no fixed timeout for streaming responses, leading to unpredictable behavior based on system resources and traffic. With this update, Edge Functions will consistently allow streaming responses for up to 300 seconds, including post-response tasks like .waitUntil() Learn more about .Vercel Functions using the Edge runtime

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AI Gateway - Request timeouts and retries with AI Gateway

AI Gateway adds additional ways to handle requests - Request Timeouts and Request Retries, making it easier to keep your applications responsive and reliable. Timeouts and retries can be used on both the Universal Endpoint or directly to a supported provider. Request timeouts A request timeout allows you to trigger fallbacks or a retry if a provider takes too long to respond. To set a request timeout directly to a provider, add a cf-aig-request-timeout header. curl https://gateway.ai.cloudflar

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Vercel Blog

Deployment pages now display key configuration settings

Project Overview and Deployment Details pages now include a Deployment Configuration section under the deployment card. Expand to view snapshots of , , , , and settings.Fluid ComputeFunction CPUDeployment ProtectionSkew ProtectionSecure Compute This section is available for all new deployments moving forward. It will appear on your Project Overview page after your next production deployment. Read more

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Dark mode, expanded search, and more repositories in Grep

We've made improvements to , our tool for quick code search. Grep . Try Grep today Read more You can now search across 1,000,000 public git repositories The app has been rebuilt with , improving performance with Next.js 15Partial Prerendering Support for dark mode

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